Effectively, that was quick. Depraved has already topped the half-billion greenback mark in worldwide grosses because it opened on Nov. 22. The long-awaited movie adaptation of the 2003 Broadway musical has grossed $540.3 million worldwide, a complete topped by just one different movie that was based mostly on a Broadway musical. And on the charge it’s going, it’s prone to shortly high that movie’s $611.5 million worldwide gross.
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo star in Depraved, which was directed by Jon M. Chu, whose hit-studded résumé features a earlier movie adaptation of a Broadway musical, the 2021 film model of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s breakout hit Within the Heights.
Seven movie variations of Broadway musicals seem on Field Workplace Mojo’s listing of the highest 1,000 movies when it comes to their lifetime worldwide grosses. That counts Mamma Mia!, a movie adaptation of the 2001 stage musical constructed round ABBA music, however not its Cher-featuring sequel Mamma Mia: Right here We Go Once more, on the grounds that the latter was actually only a sequel to successful film. (The sequel did astonishingly nicely, with a worldwide gross of $395.6 million.) After all, not all sequels are assured to develop into box-office successes. Grease is right here, however its 1982 sequel, Grease 2, which grossed simply $15 million worldwide, didn’t come shut. (Michelle Pfeiffer, the star of Grease 2, is represented on this listing with Hairspray.)
Depraved: For Good, beforehand referred to by the generic title Depraved Half Two, is due for launch on Nov. 21, 2025. Will it comply with its predecessor to box-office glory? If it does, Chu will be a part of Rob Marshall as the one director with two movies on this listing; Marshall directed each Chicago and Into the Woods.
One disclaimer about this listing proper on the high: You possibly can’t simply examine box-office grosses of movies from completely different eras. The largest blockbusters of earlier eras merely can’t match the grosses of at the moment’s hits. (It’s not simply your creativeness that ticket costs are a lot increased than they was.) The Sound of Music has grossed $159.5 million worldwide, in keeping with Field Workplace Mojo — not sufficient to make their listing of 1,000 top-grossing movies. However that 1965 adaptation of the 1959 Broadway musical is without doubt one of the largest hits in movie historical past.
Different movie variations of Broadway musicals which have grossed greater than $50 million worldwide, however not sufficient to make the listing, embrace Dreamgirls ($155.5 million), the 2021 model of West Aspect Story ($76 million), My Truthful Woman ($72.7 million) and Humorous Woman ($52.2 million).
Listed below are the seven top-grossing movie variations of Broadway musicals when it comes to lifetime worldwide grosses.
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Hairspray
Picture Credit score: ©New Line Cinema/Courtesy Everett Assortment Movie’s worldwide gross: $203.6 million
Soundtrack’s Billboard 200 peak: No. 2
Stars: John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, James Marsden, Queen Latifah, Brittany Snow, Zac Efron, Elijah Kelley, Allison Janney, Nikki Blonsky
Director: Adam Shankman
Date movie opened: July 20, 2007
Date Broadway present opened: Aug. 15, 2002
Music credit: Music by Marc Shaiman; Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman
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Into the Woods
Movie’s worldwide gross: $212.9 million
Soundtrack’s Billboard 200 peak: No. 8
Stars: Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Tracey Ullman, Christine Baranski, Johnny Depp
Director: Rob Marshall
Date movie opened: Dec. 25, 2014
Date Broadway present opened: Nov. 5, 1987
Music credit: Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
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Chicago
Picture Credit score: Miramax/courtesy Everett Assortment Movie’s worldwide gross: $306.8 million
Soundtrack’s Billboard 200 peak: No. 2
Stars: Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, John C. Reilly, Lucy Liu, Colm Feore
Director: Rob Marshall
Date movie opened: Jan. 24, 2003 (earlier in chosen markets)
Date Broadway present opened: June 3, 1975
Music credit: Music by John Kander; Lyrics by Fred Ebb
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Grease
Picture Credit score: Paramount Footage/Courtesy Everett Assortment Movie’s worldwide gross: $396.3 million
Soundtrack’s Billboard 200 peak: No. 1 (12 weeks)
Stars: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Eve Arden, Frankie Avalon, Joan Blondell, Edd Byrnes, Sid Caesar, Alice Ghostley, Dody Goodman, Sha Na Na
Director: Randal Kleiser
Date movie opened: June 16, 1978
Date Broadway present opened: Feb. 14, 1972
Music credit: Music and lyrics by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey
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Les Misérables
Movie’s worldwide gross: $442.8 million
Soundtrack’s Billboard 200 peak: No. 1 (one week)
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Helena Bonham Carter, Sacha Baron Cohen
Director: Tom Hooper
Date movie opened: Dec. 25, 2012
Date Broadway present opened: March 12, 1987
Music credit: Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; Lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer
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Depraved
Movie’s worldwide gross (to date): $540.3 million
Soundtrack’s Billboard 200 peak: No. 2 (to date)
Stars: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Marissa Bode, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum
Director: Jon M. Chu
Date movie opened: Nov. 22, 2024
Date Broadway present opened: Oct. 30, 2003
Music credit: Music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
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Mamma Mia!
Picture Credit score: Common/Courtesy Everett Assortment Movie’s worldwide gross: $611.5 million
Soundtrack’s Billboard 200 peak: No. 1 (one week)
Stars: Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Julie Walters, Dominic Cooper, Amanda Seyfried, Christine Baranski
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Date movie opened: July 18, 2008
Date Broadway present opened: Oct. 18, 2001
Music credit: Music and lyrics by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus
